More about Movies and media from Nell Minow, who reviews movies each week for Yahoo! Movies and radio stations across the U.S. and in Canada and writes the Media Mom column about families and popular culture for the Chicago Tribune.

Friday, August 11, 2006

There's a strong probability that the whole idea of cow tipping, rural kids sneaking up on sleeping cows to tip them over for fun, is a myth, even impossible as a matter of physics. But for some reason, it is the prevalent movie theme of 2006, at least in movies for kids. We've already seen cow tipping jokes in "The Wild," "Cars," "Barnyard," and this week "Zoom." Hey, it wasn't funny the first time. Or the second, third, or fourth. Let's put that joke out to pasture.